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This steelhead didn't make it out of the Pajaro River, on California's central coast, before it dried up.
July 16, 2015. Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2898, the Western Water and American Food Security Act, a bill largely driven by members representing California’s Central... [ READ MORE... ]

By Sam Sedillo
A child will never forget the first time he or she goes fly fishing.
This truism was evident as Trout Unlimited hosted its third annual Sierra Trout Camp at the University of California Berkeley’s Sagehen Creek Field Station in the Tahoe National Forest on July 11. Twenty boys... [ READ MORE... ]

After working for Trout Unlimited for eight years, one thing I know to be true is that TU members often share their passion for conservation and fishing with their spouses, partners and children. I certainly do. This image is of my daughter's first fish. Her rod was given to her by the TU Utah... [ READ MORE... ]

By Sam Davidson
“The thing about salmon is…they go back where they’re born.”
So say elementary school students at the Whitethorn School in southern Humboldt County, California.
They’re right: coho salmon, and often the coastal steelhead with which they share habitat, return to their natal streams... [ READ MORE... ]

By Sam Davidson
It’s tough times in California right now, water-wise. The Golden State is more like the Vermilion State – that being the color of extreme (or even exceptional) drought conditions in much of the state, in maps such as this.
California’s salmon, steelhead, and trout are suffering as... [ READ MORE... ]

By Chandra Ferrari
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “[d]o what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Many colorful quotes have been attributed to him but this is one of my favorites. It cautions against waiting for the perfect situation and moment to arise before moving forward. You could be... [ READ MORE... ]

By Dave Lass
California's Central Valley grows more than just food. Putah Creek, which drains the southeastern end of the Berryessa Snow Mountain complex of public lands an hour west of Sacramento, grows monster wild rainbow trout. This is something many anglers have known for decades, and was... [ READ MORE... ]

The Trinity River and the harrowing Highway 299.
By Sam Davidson
The best thing about rivers – beside the fact they may harbor trout -- is that they’re paths into the future, and the past. Always drawing you around the bend, to something new. Or old.
Roads, sensibly, often follow rivers.... [ READ MORE... ]

TU's California State Director, Brian Johnson, discusses the new California Coastal Coho and Steelhead Coalition at the Spring 2015 Gala.
By Sam Davidson
TU’s spring 2015 Gala dinner in San Francisco was the setting for the unofficial launch of the California Coastal Coho and Steelhead Coalition... [ READ MORE... ]